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Posted 24 August 2008 † Nick § China ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Taiwanese plan to skirt Olympics flag ban

Tuesday’s United Daily News reports that fans plan to wave the Myanmar flag because, like the Taiwan flag, it features a blue star-studded square on the upper left corner of a red backdrop.
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I’m not sure that this will actually eventuate, though it will be interesting to see how the locals react. If the games [...]

Posted 13 August 2008 † Nick § Taiwan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A night with The Gimp

I spent Saturday night in front of Olympic womans basketball, playing with The Gimp.

Nick, Natalia and Dennis the cat.

Posted 09 August 2008 † Nick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

On the eve of the Beijing Olympics

My Internet access is the worst I’ve experienced since I was on a University LAN in Yantai, Shandong Province, bum f*ck nowhere.
What makes me laugh/want to kill someone is that despite running firefox on an Ubuntu system (a godsend in virrii and spyware ridden Chinese Cyberspace) the censortards still insist that its Internet explorer that [...]

Posted 04 August 2008 † Nick § Censorship ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Protest-zone test case blocked in Beijing: Suzhou activist foiled in making application

From The South China Morning Post
Aug 02, 2008
A representative of more than 100 property owners from Suzhou was detained and sent home yesterday when she tried to submit an application to protest in a designated zone in Beijing during the Olympics.
Ge Yifei , a retired doctor representing 140 owners from The Lakeview luxury development in [...]

Posted 03 August 2008 † Nick § Censorship § China ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,